History
Fifty years of real market history, dividends reinvested, from the base of 1,000 on 31 December 1976 to launch at 146,061.16, then every official close of the live index since 19 September 2026, on a logarithmic scale so that every decade's percentage moves take the same vertical space. Move across the chart to read any point.
Level
72,546.58
Date
Sep 2026
Since base
72.55×
From peak
0.0%
Log scale. Shaded spans mark drawdowns of fifteen percent or more from a prior peak. Left of the dashed line is the back-history: the S&P 500 with its dividends to 1984, MSCI World and MSCI ACWI with dividends reinvested at the S&P 500's yield to mid-2008, and Vanguard's Total World Stock ETF (VT) with dividends reinvested to launch, chained at the joins, monthly to 2008 and daily after. Right of it, the live record, one point per official close, ending at the current level. 10.55 percent a year across the whole record with dividends reinvested; on price alone the same fifty years give 7.60 percent and a level of 38,093.
Every fall of fifteen percent or more, measured peak to trough, with the time taken to recover the prior peak.
| Peak | Trough | Decline | Months down | Months to recover |
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